Tag Archive for: indesign

Best of InDesignSecrets, CreativePro, and Design Geek

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Anne-Marie Concepción and David Blatner have spent almost two decades publishing tips and tutorials about their favorite page-layout app in thousands of blog posts, podcasts, magazine articles, and videos. Watch as they battle to find the best of InDesignSecrets, CreativePro, and InDesign Tips for Design Geeks.

Topics include:

  • Obscure InDesign features that you really should be using
  • Tricks that could literally change your life (or at least your workflow)
  • Shortcuts for improving your productivity
  • Using common features together in uncommon ways for maximum benefit

Power Up Your Production with Styles

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Every InDesign user knows that styles are essential for efficiently formatting text because they allow us to quickly format content and easily make changes later on. Using styles is also a requirement if you want to take advantage of InDesign’s powerful automation features. But why do some of us continue to resist?

In this session, you’ll learn how to use styles the right way and why they’re so worth it!

Topics include:

  • The fastest way to create and redefine styles
  • Thinking creatively with styles
  • Leveraging Nested Styles to apply text formatting automatically
  • Style mapping from Word

Get Productive with InDesign Forms and e-Signatures

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This session will teach you everything you need to know about designing beautiful PDF forms and web forms with InDesign. And while aesthetics are important, we’ll mainly focus on what you can do with InDesign’s form fields and how to take your forms to the next level, using unique text-tags from Acrobat Sign (included in Creative Cloud).

Topics include:

  • Designing InDesign forms by creating text fields, radio buttons, pull-down menus, and many other field types
  • Adding calculations to existing fields, setting conditions, or masking field information
  • Sending and monitoring forms using Acrobat Sign for information gathering, approvals, and e-signatures
  • The differences between Acrobat Sign forms and PDF forms, and how they relate to web forms
  • Next steps

10 Essential InDesign Efficiency Tips

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Join us for a fast-paced, fun-filled, tip-a-palooza to boost your productivity! We’ll zip through a ton of handy tips and tricks that every InDesign user needs to know. Plus, you’ll get primed to soak up all the InDesign goodness the rest of the conference will bring.

Topics include:

  • If you’re not customizing InDesign, you’re missing out
  • Essential shortcuts
  • Hidden (or obscure) helpful features

Production Disasters and How to Fix (or Prevent) Them

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Did you know your computer has a special sensor that can tell how close to a deadline you are? That’s why the worst problems come when you’re the most stressed already! OK, that’s not true, but it seems like it, right?

In this session, you’ll learn how to avoid as many problems as possible, prepare for when things inevitably go wrong, and quickly fix disasters so you can get the job done.

Accessible PDFs: Critical Next Steps

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In Accessible InDesign Documents Part 1 and Part 2, we explored how to set up your file to export accessible PDFs. But there’s only so much InDesign can do! In this session, we’ll see the critical next steps you need to take in Acrobat.

Topics include:

  • The key items to check in every PDF
  • Accessibility vs. usability
  • Testing documents with a screen reader
  • How to use the Preflight panel to your advantage
  • Which testing tools you should be using

Accessible InDesign Documents, Part 2

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In Part 1, we laid out the basics that you need to know to make accessible documents in InDesign.

Now, let’s take the next step and explore some of the most important rules for building accessible PDF files.

Topics include:

  • Working with accessible colors
  • Best practices for accessible tables
  • Accessible hyperlinks
  • Exporting to PDF
  • Checking for compliance

Accessible InDesign Documents, Part 1

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Ensuring that the PDF files you export from InDesign are accessible to everyone is not only a good idea, it’s the right thing to do! In this session, you’ll learn what accessibility and “Section 508” means and how you can produce PDF documents that are accessible to all!

This tutorial is split into three separate sessions. This session takes you through the steps of adding basic accessibility features to your InDesign files.

Topics include:

  • How to build an InDesign document the right way from the start
  • Controlling content order
  • Using accessibility features in InDesign

PS + ID + AI: The Trifecta

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We all have our favorite Adobe apps, but to really get the most out of them and maximize our efficiency, it’s crucial to understand how they work together!

Topics include:

  • How to properly set up Photoshop and Illustrator files for InDesign
  • Choosing between layers and artboards
  • CC Libraries: the secret back door conduit
  • Using cloud documents and setting up collaborations
  • When to link, copy, or embed artwork

Sponsored Breakfast Session: Why You Can’t Live Without an Online Proofing Platform

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This session is sponsored by PageProof

The founders of PageProof have experienced the frustration that creatives and marketing teams face when gathering feedback and approvals on work. Their mission: to enable faster execution of brand-approved content by removing the hurdles of giving feedback and approvals. In today’s hybrid marketing world, whatever you create can be proofed with PageProof — artwork, photography, documents, presentations, design prototypes, video, podcasts, HTML emails, websites… even 3D. Simple online proofing for every piece of work you create. More importantly, so much time can be saved for the ever-busy designer with PageProof’s Adobe extension. We can’t wait to show you this time-saver!

“It’s amazing… they nailed the comment and approval process.”
—David Blatner, CEO, CreativePro Network

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